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1. SEIU rearranges 600,000 into mega locals.
2. Can AFL-CIO avoid a RICO suit in ATU Local 1181?
3. Toussaint in TWU Local 100: How to lose friends and alienate people.
4. Steel officers instigate reform revolt.
5. OLMS Makes Contracts Available Online.
6. CFC Time! Federal Employees please give to AUD #11741
7. In Memoriam
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1. SEIU rearranges 600,000 into mega locals. ...the SEIU leadership has been forthright about its preference for tight top-down control. It is implanting the spirit of subservience into the new structures...As permitted by law, all the officers of the big new locals are appointed by the international. To make sure that even those handpicked officers can be trusted to remain amenable, candidates for appointive office must sign a "code of conduct," a loyalty oath which signifies not loyalty to the union but to its ruling administration... Read more.
2. Can AFL-CIO avoid a RICO suit in ATU Local 1181? For years the international officers of the Amalgamated Transit Union were warned that Local 1181, one of their biggest, was infiltrated by organized crime. They ignored the information until 2007 when Matty the Horse Ianniello, along with two local officers pleaded guilty in federal court to dominating the local for the Genovese crime family... Now that the international has done nothing effective to clean up the local, the question will inevitably arise: will law enforcement authorities and the federal courts use their authority under the federal RICO statute to reorganize the local? A reform group has appealed to AFL-CIO President Sweeney to do something. Will he act, and in time?... Read more.
3. Toussaint in TWU Local 100: How to lose friends and alienate people.Roger Toussaint, president of Transport Workers Local 100, has perfected the art of how to lose friends. He was elected in 2000 to lead this union of New York subway and bus drivers at the head of a caucus that had campaigned for more democracy and militancy in the union. Once elected, he did adopt a more militant stance in the face of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the mean and overbearing employer of most of his members. But democracy? That was something else... Read more on Benson's Union Democracy Blog.
5. Office of Labor-Management Standards Makes Contracts Available Online. "The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) announces the availability of the Department of Labor Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) File in the Online Public Disclosure Room. Collective bargaining agreements...are now available to be viewed and printed." With two exceptions: contracts covering fewer than 1,000 workers, and contracts covering railroad and airline workers. See the Online Public Disclosure Room.
6. Time for the Combined Federal Campaign. AUD has a new number -- 11741 -- for Federal Employees who wish to support the movement for union democracy.
7. In Memoriam: Israel Kugler. Israel Kugler, who died on October 1 at the age of 90, was a longtime supporter of AUD. He was the founder and president of the United Federation of College Teachers, one of the earliest unions of college faculty, a local of the American Federation of Teachers. The local merged with the Legislative Conference into what became the Professional Staff Congress, the AFT union which now represents faculty at the City University of New York. Kugler had been president of the Workmen's Circle. We welcome gifts in his memory to the Association for Union Democracy.
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